阅读理解

　　Scholars and researchers have tried to discover what personality characteristics go along with success in intercultural experiences．Their findings have often been unclear or incomplete．But three characteristics stand out in their reports: patience, a sense of humor, and the awareness of being unclear．

　　Patience, of course, is the ability to keep calm even when things do not go as one wants them to, or hopes they will, or has even been sure they will．Impatience sometimes brings improvements in relations with other people, but usually it does not．

　　A person with a sense of humor is less likely to take things too seriously and more ready to see the humor in her own reactions than is a humorless person．The value of a sense of humor really needs to be paid more attention to．

　　“The awareness of being unclear”is a more difficult concept than patience or a sense of humor．Foreigners often find themselves in situations that are unclear to the newcomers．That is, they do not know what is happening in the situation．Perhaps they do not understand the local language well enough, or they do not know how some system or organization works, or they can’t be sure of different people’s roles in what is going on．“It’s like I just got here from the moon,”a Chinese graduate student who newly arrived in the United States said,“things are just so different here．”

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阅读理解

　　Scholars and researchers have tried to discover what personality characteristics go along with success in intercultural experiences．Their findings have often been unclear or incomplete．But three characteristics stand out in their reports：patience, a sense of humor, and the awareness of being unclear．

　　Patience, of course, is the ability to keep calm even when things do not go as one wants them to, or hopes they will, or has even been sure they will．Impatience sometimes brings improvements in relations with other people, but usually it does not．

　　A person with a sense of humor is less likely to take things too seriously and more ready to see the humor in his own reactions than a humorless person．The value of a sense of humor really needs to be paid more attention to．

　　The awareness of being unclear is a more difficult concept than patience or a sense of humor．Foreigners often find themselves in situations that are unclear to the newcomers．That is, they do not know what is happening in the situation．Perhaps they do not understand the local language well enough, or they do not know how some system or organization works, or they can’t be sure of different people’s roles in what is going on．“It’s like I just got here from the moon,” a Chinese graduate student who newly arrived in the United States said, “things are just so different here．”

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阅读理解(Reading Comprehension)

　　Increasingly, over the past ten years, people－especially young people－have become aware of the need to change their eating habits, because much of the food they eat, particularly processed(加工，处理)food, is not good for the health．As a result, there has been a growing interest in natural foods：foods which do not contain chemical additives(添加剂)and which have not been affected by chemical fertilizers, widely used in farming today．

　　Natural foods, for example, are vegetables, fruit and grain which have been grown in soil that is rich in organic(生物)matter．Natural foods also include animals which have been allowed to feed and move freely in healthy pastures．Compare this with what happens in the mass production of poultry(家禽)：there are battery farms, for example, where thousands of chickens live crowded together in one building and are fed on food which is little better than rubbish．Chickens kept in this way are not only tasteless as food; they also produce eggs which lack important vitamins．

　　There are other aspects(方面)of healthy eating which are now receiving increasing attention from experts on diet．Take, for example, the question of sugar．This is actually unnecessary!Although a natural alternative(选择)，such as honey, can be used to sweeten food if this is necessary, we can in fact do without it．It is not sugar that is harmful in itself．But it does seem to be addictive：the quantity we use has grown over the last two centuries and in Britain today each person consumes(消耗)an average of 200 pounds a year!Yet all it does is to provide us with energy, in the form of calories．There are no vitamins in it, no minerals, and no fiber．

　　It is significant(有意义的)that nowadays fiber is considered to be an important part of a healthy diet．In white bread, for example, the fiber has been removed．But it is present in unrefined(未加工的)flour and of course in vegetables．It is interesting to note that in countries where the national diet contains large quantities of unrefined flour and vegetables, certain diseases are comparatively(相对地)rare．Thus the emphasis is placed on the eating of whole meal bread and more vegetables by modern experts on“healthy eating”．

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